I’ll second that — a lot of the feel the bern types are legitimate idealists. They will learn in the course of their lives that the idealism does not mesh with the way too many people act but for now, don’t begrudge them their youthful ideals. Many of the young socialists today will be conservative in another few years after marriage, parenthood, and careers become their daily activities.
Yeh, I was one of those left idealists 30 years ago.
I voted for Paul Simon in the ‘88 Dem Primary. But by ‘92, I was firmly on the right.
Ironically, Trump has more in common with Simon than Obama or Clinton. His liberalism was of the old, plainspoken New Deal variety, not the deceptive and elitist modern incarnation.